Secrets Of The Woods: Werewolf Story

Chapter 20: Unusual Night

Mason Foster's PoV

I spend most of the night making Matthew do different things while he's stuck in wolf form. It gives him practice moving around in wolf form and gives us something to laugh at. I text Elizabeth some until she stops texting me. I'm guessing she fell asleep.

I stay up all night watching Matthew do stuff until he falls asleep. He curls up into a ball and sleeps. I stay up even after Zoe heads back home. Morgan goes upstairs to sleep in her room. I busy myself by cutting the raw meat into smaller pieces so the big wolves and baby ones can eat them. I put the cut up meat in bags and label them the difference days of the week to feed them. I'm not sure how long the pack will be in the basement. It won't be forever. They need to be able to run around. Maybe I should look to buying more of the forest around the private property. That way we can eventually build a fence around our property and let the wolves wander around and do whatever they want. That way they would be safe.

I walk around the house cleaning and I also get some laundry done. This isn't the first time I have wandered around the house not sleeping. I don't need too much sleep. If you ask the others in the pack house they would all agree saying I've wandered around the house at night not being able to sleep. I guess you can say I suffer from sleep insomnia. When I can't sleep I wander around the house doing things. I have woken the others up before.

I've been wandering around when I can't sleep for so long I forgot about it. I didn't tell the pack. The first time I did it I woke up most of the pack. It was a lot bigger when I first joined. I had to explain it to them then they all understood. They stopped worrying about me wandering around at night. As long as I help clean the house or do some chores to help out when I can't sleep then they don't mind. I'm surprised I haven't woken up Matthew. He's curled up and asleep in the living area. Maybe he's a deep sleeper? Or maybe I wore him out making him do different things. Since I'm bored I decide to go on a run in wolf form. I don't think it's risky because the hunter only hunts during the day.

I open the door, step outside, then close the door. I head over to the edge of the woods. I take my clothes off and hide them before changing into my wolf form. I stretch some then I start running. I run around our property and stop by the cave. It's filled with wild wolves sleeping there. I jump when I hear gun shots. Is the hunter out at night? The whole wild pack wakes up and starts running. I realize if the hunter shot a warning shot in the air that he might have done it because he doesn't know where the pack is. The shot would wake the wolves up and because they are wild they will start running, thinking they are in danger even though they don't know they are safe by staying here. I know they aren't my own wolf pack but I still want to protect them. I start running and follow after the pack. I quickly run around them and growl to force them back into the private property. They all head back into the private property. I hear more gun shots then I get hit. I start running and fall down when I get shot again. I let out a loud howl that I know Morgan will recognize. I start running even though I'm a lot slower. The pack keeps running and I lose where they went.

Eventually I make it back to the pack house. Surprisingly the whole wild pack stopped outside the pack house. I take a couple more steps then I fall to the ground. I try to stay awake but the loss of blood makes me fall unconscious.

*Picture at the top of the chapter is the woods at night*